belonidae

English Thesaurus

1. ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish family,
definition	:	any of various families of fish (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	billfish, gar, needlefish,
definition	:	elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order synentognathi, synentognathi,
definition	:	order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks (noun.animal)